Coin-controlled apparatus.



PATBNTED APR. 19,1904.

W WEBBER COIN CONTROLLED APPARATUS- APPLIGATION IILED MAY 7, 1903.

E0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented April 19, 1904.

1 PATENT OFFICE.

COIN-CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. vetted dat d pril 19. 1904.

Applicaticu filed May 7, 1903. Serial No. 155,963. (No modelJ 7 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WESLEY WEBBER,a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State 5 of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Controlled Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to coin-controlled ap-.

I paratus designed more especially for use in connection with vendingmachinessuch, for example, as that shown in my Patent No. 723,345, dated March 24, 1903; and the invention consists, mainly, in such construction of I the coin-controlled device that a main or connecting shaft is given a partial rotation by inserting a coin in the coin-barrel androtating the latter a portion of a revolution, the said main or connecting shaft being at all times 2 locked by means which are controlled by the coin in the coin-barrel.

The invention also consists of the construction. arrangement, and combinations of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made and which form part of this specification, Figure 1 is a sectionalelevation on line w a of Fig. 3, the outside casing being removed, a coin being inserted in the coin- 3 barrel ready for rotation. Fig. 2 is a like view showing the parts in the position they assume during the rotation of the coin-barrel and coin. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional elevation showing the coin-controlled appa- 3 5 ratus applied in the preferred form to vending mechanism. Fig. 4 is a detailed view of one of the wheels, showing a modification; and Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the vending mechanism. A

In the drawings, 2 designates the main back plate of the coin-controlled device formed with a journal or heading 3 for the main or connecting shaft 4, which is to be rotated from the coin-barrel 5 bya coin 5, inserted therein. Upon the inner end of the shaft 4 is secured one of the wheels of a Geneva gear that is to say, a wheel 6, having concaved sides 7 7 and recesses 8 8 at the angles between the saidconcaved sides, as shown.

The coin-barrel 5 is formed with a coin-slot 9 and is journaled at one end in the main back plate 2 and at the other end in a bearing formed in the outer inclosing case 10. On one of the gudgeons of the coin-barrel 5 is secured the other complemental wheel of the Geneva gearthat is to say, a wheel 12, which isforrned withthe convex projections 13 13 and the tongues 14 14, which work into the recesses 8 '8 of the wheel 6 and rotate the same. The convex projections 13 13, acting in conjunction with the concaved surfaces 7,

serve'to lock the gear 6 and the shaft to which it is attached. The said wheel 12 is provided on one of its surfaces with a ratchet-wheel 15, with which a pawl 16 engages to prevent the parts against backward rotation. This ratchetwheel is provided with several projections 17, against which a coin 5, when held in the coinbarrel, will strike in the rotation of the coinbarrel, and thus rotate the ratchetwheel 15, the wheel 12, the wheel 6, and the shaft 4.

The coin is inserted into the coin-barrel through a slot 18 in the outer casing and .is prevented from dropping throughthe coinbarrel by a support or a projection 19. This support or projection 19 is by preference formed as a part of a stationary cam 20, which is eccentric and partially surrounds the coinbarrel and the function of which is to shove the coin out from the slot in the coin-barrel, so that its edge will engage with one of the studs or projections 17, and thus lock the coin-barrel with the mechanism as shown in Fig. 2 and rotate the same, as above stated. The rotation willcontinue until the coin abuts against the projection 19, whereupon it will drop out of the coin-barrel into the cash-box 21, and thus disconnect the coin-barrel from the other opsecured to the said ratchet-wheel are secured directly to the Wheel 12. Y

In Figs. 3 and 5 I have shown my new coincontrolled apparatus applied to a main shaft 23, which enters a closed cabinet. Attached vto the said shaft is a sprocket-wheel 24, around which and around another sprocket-wheel 25 on a shaft 26 passes a sprocket-chain 27, to which is secured a series of trays 28, on which the articles to be sold and delivered in exchange for a coin are placed. The cogs on the ratchetwheel 24 are arranged relatively to the concaved faces of the gear-wheel 6, so that when this wheel is in locked position one of the trays at the bottom will be carried down to a vertical position, thus delivering the vendable article held thereon. At this orabout this time in the operation of the coin-controlled apparatus the coin will drop from the coin+barrel into the cash-box, so that no further operation of the coin-controlled mechanism or of the series of trays can take place until another coin has been inserted in the coinslot.

In most cases the main or connecting shaft will be divided, the two parts being adapted v to be coupled together, as shown at 29, so

that in constructing the coin-controlled apparatus it may be made complete and assembled without the necessity of handling a long shaft and so that it may be detached for repairs or for any other purpose without the necessity of removing the longer part of the shaft from its sprocket-wheel or the latter from the sprocketchain.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a coin-controlled apparatus a rotary coin-barrel, a main or connecting shaft, the complemental wheels of a Geneva gear operating with said shaft and coin-barrel, projections carried adjacent to the said coin-barrel by one of the Geneva gear-wheels for causing a coin held in said coin-barrel to rotate said Geneva gear-wheels, substantially as described.

2. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a rotary coin-barrel, a main or connecting shaft, the complemental wheels of a Geneva gear operating with said shaft and coin-barrel, projections adjacent to the said coin-barrel for causing the coin in the coin-barrel to rotate the said Geneva gear-wheels and an eccentric cam for pushing the coin forward in the slot of the coin-barrel during the rotation of the coinbarrel, substantially as described.

3. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a rotary coin-barrel, a main or connecting shaft, the complemental wheels of a Geneva gear operating with said shaft and coin-barrel, a ratchetwheel secured to one of the Geneva gear- WESLEY WEBBER.

Witnesses:

H. A. WEST, LEWIS S. BURCHARD. 

